I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.